I don’t know about you, but I don’t like being pushed out of my comfort zone. I like the familiarity of my routine, my space, and my time. When one of those is disrupted, I feel unsettled. When all of them are disrupted, I feel completely overwhelmed. My instinct is to withdraw, to hide, and to scramble for some sense of normalcy (and my favorite dark chocolate). Lately, that’s been the case. There’s a lot happening across several areas of life and it feels like I’m being pus

"Who wrote on the wall?" My two- and four-year-old children stared at me, unwilling to give the other up. I sighed. We'd been down the...